Granny Tinder
Granny Tinder was a dating-themed segment on Scott Mills' Radio 1 afternoon show, where Zofia's nan Lynette judged listeners' Tinder bios and dating dilemmas live on air alongside the usual mix of show chat and games.
Chris preserved door handles for fingerprints and screen-grabbed everyone on his video doorbell as suspects, only for his wife to remember the “stolen” laptop had been taken upstairs. [...]
The familiar “someone's knocking at the door” advert turned out to use a real Wings song, while Granny Tinder learned about foam parties and Radio 1 investigated the strange fashion for nude candles. [...]
Lynette received an actual response from the BBC Director-General after lobbying for Chris to appear on Celebrity MasterChef, while Chris admitted he had never smuggled a budgie. [...]
Lynette formally asked the BBC Director-General to put Chris forward for Celebrity MasterChef, while Vick and Katie prepared a late-night Lolathon sex-education lesson for Scott. [...]
Scott imagined Joel Corry and Blossoms disappearing beneath months of uncut hair, while Lynette's Zoom voice somehow reminded the team of both the Queen and Skepta. [...]
Aaron's cryptocurrency and expensive-watch profile failed to impress Lynette, while Chris tried to work out whether Innuendo Bingo could return without anybody actually spitting at each other. [...]
Sandra Mills treated vaccination day like an outing, Lynette preferred Barack Obama to a young Joe Biden and Ali Plumb turned Bangers into a three-way movie battle. [...]
Lynette accidentally turned seven Scrabble letters into a radio puzzle, while listeners supplied more evidence that Tom Grennan was one of the nicest people in music. [...]
Lynette remained unimpressed by another batch of dating profiles, while Scott and Chris discovered it can be surprisingly hard to tell a rapper's stage name from an accountant's surname. [...]
Scott's new garden dog toilet promised to dissolve poo, which naturally led him to wonder whether he should personally test it before Teddy used it. [...]